Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film
WGS.640 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Spring 2014
Dr. Emily Fox-Kales, Dr. Suzanne Leonard
<p>Using film and related popular media as our texts, this course will examine how screen “embodiments” of the woman visualize ideologies of discipline and desire in a culture in which her body has become a representation of the ability to control appetites, size and shape while investing personal and social capital in its rehabilitation as a project of endless reconstruction, redesign and maintenance. Throughout the course we will draw from feminist film theory, clinical psychology, as well as…
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Dr. Emily Fox-Kales, Dr. Suzanne Leonard. WGS.640 Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film. Spring 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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